Something in the vews folder was the problem. After copying one item at a time and leaving out some layout templates, I don't have an issue any more. I still don't know what was the issue and hope it won't resurface. Regards
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019, 09:34 Yi Liu <[email protected] wrote: > This seems to be a typical py2 py3 transition utf-8 error. I personally > encountered before/ some googling and stackoverflow reading should solve > your problem. > > On Sunday, February 3, 2019 at 2:52:51 AM UTC-8, Maurice Waka wrote: >> >> I'm shifting my app to python3.6. >> When trying to edit from admin, I get this error; >> Traceback >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/home/mauricewaka/web2py/gluon/restricted.py", line 219, in >> restricted >> exec(ccode, environment) >> File >> "/home/mauricewaka/web2py/applications/admin/controllers/default.py" >> <http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/default/edit/admin/controllers/default.py>, >> line 2012, in <module> >> File "/home/mauricewaka/web2py/gluon/globals.py", line 421, in <lambda> >> self._caller = lambda f: f() >> File >> "/home/mauricewaka/web2py/applications/admin/controllers/default.py" >> <http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/default/edit/admin/controllers/default.py>, >> line 1140, in design >> data = safe_read(apath('%s/views/%s' % (app, c), r=request)) >> File >> "/home/mauricewaka/web2py/applications/admin/controllers/default.py" >> <http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/default/edit/admin/controllers/default.py>, >> line 95, in safe_read >> return safe_file.read() >> File "/usr/lib/python3.6/codecs.py", line 321, in decode >> (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) >> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: >> invalid start byte >> >> >> I downloaded the latest web2py before installing my app. >> Regards >> >> -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

